Example sentences of "she [verb] [pron] [adv prt] [prep] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 31 | She threw herself down at her desk and read Nicola 's note through yet again , the sparkle of excitement in her eyes . |
| 32 | She hauled me down to her lair to find out . |
| 33 | With her penetrating instinct she did not like him , and was so angry with me for , as she said , ‘ wasting myself upon such rubbish ’ , that in the end she turned me out of my room and I went to live in a tiny , freezing attic in a house in Morningside Crescent owned by a friend of hers , a white woman . |
| 34 | A little later , Emily was looking through her accounts and came across a bill for French calf ; thoughtfully , she turned it over in her hands , Hari would need to buy the calf too and the usual practice was to pay for it at the end of the month . |
| 35 | Instead she turned it round on him . |
| 36 | She turned herself over in her bed , and snuggled down for an extra , self-indulgent and rare hour of sleep . |
| 37 | She handed them over to her husband and was terrified by his reaction . |
| 38 | She handed it back to him . |
| 39 | Draining her glass , she handed it back to him , got to her feet , and walked off . |
| 40 | Last year she had a lovely crop from her plot , which measures about 2ft by 3ft ; this year she dug it over in plenty of time for May 4 , the day on which she sows on the basis of an old saying : ‘ the 4th of May is kidney bean day ’ . |
| 41 | Greeting him on his return from battle , she hands him over to his wife with palpable reluctance ; seeking to calm him before his confrontation with the people , she shackles him in an iron grip ; and , in the great plea with him not to sack Rome , she pinpoints the lines about him treading on his mother 's womb ‘ that brought thee to this world ’ . |
| 42 | Although it might sound as though Dawn was petrified of Jasper there were a number of occasions when she scared him out of his skin . |
| 43 | But she coaxed him along with her unwaveringly sympathetic smile , and he ordered everyone to dismantle the tables and re-set them . |
| 44 | The day Ruth walked out of this family — when she went over to the Roman Church — she cut herself off from us . |
| 45 | She plumped it up with her thin hands and held it out invitingly . |
| 46 | She flattened it out with her fork , and hoped for mercy : the mercy of no notice taken . |
| 47 | She prised it out of its little grave and wiped it clean . |
| 48 | Eventually I stopped a very helpful young lady member of the staff , told her of my predicament and she guided me back to my table . |
| 49 | She pulled him down beside her in the long grass , and smiled shyly at him as she undressed . |
| 50 | She pulled herself up on her walking-frame and shuffled off , pushing it in front of her , towards the kitchen . |
| 51 | Why should she take it out on him that he 'd got the wrong voice ? |
| 52 | Well , she rang me up about it , we had a drink . |
| 53 | When Muriel did n't get the job she 'd hoped for she talked it over with her present boss . |
| 54 | She ticked them off on her list , saying aloud , ‘ Two Willows , One Sandwich . ’ |
| 55 | He hesitated for a moment , and she took him up on it . |
| 56 | She took him back to her Streatham pad by taxi , paying for it out of his wallet . |
| 57 | She took one out of her handbag . |
| 58 | Mother Bombie 's last words before she took herself off to her own quarters had been , ‘ Rose — shift over . |
| 59 | She rolled him on to his shoulder and two cornflowers stared at her . |
| 60 | She rolled them on to her forearms . |